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Is a ZIMA Board 2 + RTX 2000 ADA the cheapest path to a decent Qwen-3.8 27b self-contained endpoint?

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I just watched a YouTube from Luke’s Dev Lab where he literally just plugged a RTX 2000 ADA Into the side of the Zima Board 2’s PCIE socket and it just friggin worked and had great token speed despite running on shitty Ollama. Ran off the Zima’s power supply and everything. https://youtu.be/Lb3sRFT…

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    Is a ZIMA Board 2 + RTX 2000 ADA the cheapest path to a decent Qwen-3.8 27b self-contained endpoint?

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